At 04:36 PM 6/4/2005, Lea de Groot wrote:
On Sat, 4 Jun 2005 18:07:48 -0500, Matt Thommes wrote: > For instance, I always escape a dash (-) with – --- when > using it in a normal sentence.Thats interesting - I escape such entities as ampersands (&) and double quotes ("), but not things such as hyphens.
Lea, – is not a hyphen, it's an en-dash. See for instance http://www.ascii.cl/htmlcodes.htm Also: The Trouble With EM 'n EN (and Other Shady Characters) by Peter K. Sheerin http://www.alistapart.com/articles/emen/ Paul ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
